Assignment due December 14

Reread Lesson 14. Complete rough draft of 3 topics/body paragraphs for your essay. Use checklist to complete. Bring a typed, double-spaced copy to class.

ASsignment Due Nov. 9

Success and Goal Setting (See Handout from Class)
1. Define success as you understand it. Use quotes from your resources to support your opinion. You can use the bible, your parents, teachers, internet, etc. Be sure to make alist o your references. Discuss how you expect to achieve success in your own life.

2. Explain goal setting. What are the steps? Include examples of goals you have set in the past and how you achieved them.

3. Set a new goal for this class. Explain your goal, your plan, potential roadblocks and how you will overcome those. Explain how you will know if you have achieved your goal.

4. Choose a Civil War figure to do a research report about. Bring 3 references/resources to class concerning this figure. Contnu reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables.

Due on November 2

Due for class on November 2. (Remember there is no class on October 26)

All assignments are due. Nothing will be accepted for 1st Quarter after November 2.

Finish Worksheets/Essay on Literature began in class. (This covers Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and poems by Longfellow)

Assignment DUE OCT 19

Reread lesson 6 and 7. Rewrite Escape from the Underground Railroad. You may change the character and details of the story but keep the general plot the same. Use the checklist to make sure you include all elements required with proper indicators.

Vocabulary through Lesson 7.

October 19 we will be going over the Literature assignment. (Rip VanWinkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Longfellow poems)

October 26 will be a day off of classes.

October 5 Assignment

Lesson 6 Reread lesson. Complete final draft of Underground Railroad. Use checklist and turn checklist in with assignment. Use MLA format, double space, etc.

Review vocabulary through Lesson 6. Quiz next week.

September 28 Assignment

Lesson 3 from Student Book: Make a keyword outline (pg 22) summary --2 paragraphs
Write a rough draft summary report following checklist on pg 23.
Grammar: Resource Notebook pg 61, 64 and 66.
(Next week: Grammar quiz on rules 1-3)

Remember to read: The Legend Sleepy Hollow and Rip VanWinkle by Washington Irving ALSO
Read the following poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

"The Courtship of Miles Standish" http://wwwhwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=186-

"Paul Revere's Ride" http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=35

"A Psalm of Life" http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=36

Optional: Read "Evangeline" and/or "The Song of Hiawatha" (also by Longfellow)

Reading due by October 19, 2010

Assignment for September 21, 2010

You will be using your rough draft "Slavery" from lesson 2.
Reread Lesson 4. Write a cinquain entitled "The Slave". Use consonance, assonance or alliteration in the poem at least once.

Write a final draft of your slavery report with your cinquain at the beginning of the report. The cinquain will be centered, italicized and separate from the body paragraphs.

Add dress-ups and sentence openers as listed on your checklist. Be sure to indicate these as discussed in class. Remember to type, double-space, name/date etc. You will need to handwritten the indicators in the margin and underline dress-ups.

Review Lesson 4 vocabulary.

September 14 Assignment

Complete 3 paragraph essay on The Last of the Mohicans. Follow the Story Sequence Model and notes from class. Use MLA format (typed, double space, info in header).

Literature Assignment (Due to complete by October 19) Begin reading Rip VanWinkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Longfellow poems will be added).

Assignment for August 30, 2010

Continue reading "The Last of the Mohicans" completing 8 chapters per week.
Check out these websites for info and background on the book.
http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam854/lompix.html This site has links to images of the various illustrations by various artists.
http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/introduction/reading.html This site has suggestions for "Reading Cooper for Pleasure".

Assignment: Reread Lesson 2. Complete assignment started in class. This is a rough draft. Use your checklist to be sure you have included all necessary requirements.

Do Vocabulary for Lesson 2

Assignment for August 24, 2010

Read Introduction and Lesson 1 in Student Book
Complete Exercise on page 10 (Read the directions!) Remember to type final draft with title.
Review Grammar Rules 1a-f in the Resource Notebook pg 56 and 58.
Complete Grammar Rules Worksheet on pg 57 and 59.
Begin reading "The Last of the Mohicans". The book has 33 chapters and you have 4 weeks so try to get through at least 8 chapters per week. Remember to annotate as you read.

New School Year 2010-2011

Welcome to Advanced English. This is a 2 semester course covering American Literature and Composition based on U.S. History resources. Assignments are expected to by typed, double-spaced, 12 pt. font. Header will include Name, Date, Class. Assignments will be turned in on time. We will use the IEW U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons, Vol. 2. Our literature selections for the 1st semester are:
"The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper (complete by Sept. 14, 2010)
"Rip VanWinkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollw" by Washington Irving and "SelectedWorks" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (complete by Oct. 19, 2010)
"The House of Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (complete by Nov. 30, 2010)
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (complete by Jan. 4, 2011)
Homework Assignments will be announced in class each week. I will make every attempt to post assignments here in a timely manner.

Assignment for May 11, 2010

Complete all missing assignments. Complete final copy of all essays.

May 4 Assignment

Read Chapter in Windows on the World Student Text, Symbolism. You were previously assigned an essay to answer the following prompt: How does the title tie in with the story of To Kill a Mockingbird? Use the information learned in Chapter 8 to complete this assignment. Be sure to make an outline and turn in with final draft. Check your Literary Analysis Checklist.
Complete grammar worksheet.

April 27 Assignment

Complete rough draft on Essay from pg 90 in Windows on the World Student Text. Be prepared for a 'peer evaluation' in class on May 4. Review Chapter 5, Literary Analysis Essays, for essay guidelines. Final draft will be due on May 11.
Complete grammar worksheets.

April 20

Assignment due April 27.
Read Chapter 7 (pg 73-85) Complete Exercise 6 pg 86-87
READ pg 88-90: we will discuss in class.
Complete Grammar worksheets

April 13

Watch movie in class. Homework: Complete handouts given in class. Due next week.

Assignment for April 6 (due 4/13)

Complete 4 handouts on Subject/Verb agreement
Using the book, To Kill a Mockingbird write an 3-5 paragraph
Essay: In what way is the title important to the story?

Read WW pg 73-75. Using TKM, list Protagonist, Antagonist, Foil, Stock

Assignment for March 23, 2010

Continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
As you read, make a chart/notes for
--literary devices such as imagery, simile/metaphor, personification, allusion
--suspense building events
--list of conflicts

Use Lesson 4 (in your text book)as a format.

Fix It Lesson 22
Vocabulary 23

Assignments for March 9, 2010

Fix It Week 20
Vocabulary Review
Read 1st half of "To Kill a Mockingbird" Annotate as you go.
Make a list of characters and info about them.
Make notes of setting information
Define unknown words (possible quiz)

Assignment for March 2, 2010

Read Chapter 5.
Complete Exercise 5: Suspense Essay--4 Paragraph Analytical Essay. Turn in next week.

Read Chapter 6--In class quiz on this material next week.

Be sure you have the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" for next class.

No fix-it or vocab for this week.

Assignment for February 23, 2010

Read Chapter 4
Complete Exercise 4
Continue working on Biblical allusions Project
Review Vocab words and do worksheet (In class quiz next week on all words)
Fix It: Nothing new: Make sure you are caught up to week 20.

Purchase or borrow: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. We will be using this book for the next few weeks.

February 16 NO CLASS--WINTER BREAK (Farewell to Jake Gardner leaving for New Zealand mission trip! Remember to pray for him.)

Assignments: Read "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
Annotate story.
Note any allusions. Explain what the authors purpose is in using the allusion.
Fix It Week 19
Vocab words Week 19

February 9 SNOW DAY! NO CLASSES!
Assignments:
*Fix It Week 18
*Vocab cards review Week 18
*Continue working on Biblical Allusions project. Go to www.worsleyschool.net and search 'allusion' for ideas on how allusions might be used. You will be giving quick in class reports on your assigned Bible passage.
*Reread chapter 3 Allusions and fill in pg 30 and 31
*Google: Adam's Curse by William butler Yeats, print out, annotate, paraphrase/explaining what the author says in each stanza. Look up and read Genesis 3:17. Write why you think Yeats includes the Biblical allusion in his poem and what his purpose is.

Assignments for February 2, 2010

Fix It week 17 (not a typo--getting back on track)
Vocab. cards Week 17

Read pg 27-33 in Student book.
Research assigned Biblical passages and suggest ways it might be used in literature (to be presented to class)
Exercise 2 (pg 35)

Assignments for January 26, 2010
Read and ANNOTATE The Most Dangerous Game. You will have a quiz on this story and you will be able to use your ANNOTATIONS.
Write a paragraph on Why and What to Annotate. Use sentence openers and dress ups from Stylistic Techniques List.
Vocab sheet/cards Week 17
Fix It Week 17.

Assignment for January 12

Review all Latin words for test next week.
Finish 2nd book report.
Write a 5 paragraph persuasive essay on the following: Is the Internet a hero or villain?

Turn in all missing assignments by next Tuesday, January 19.

Assignments for December 15 (due January 12)
Write essay based on Spurgeon devotional; Psalm
Fix It Week 15

Second book report due January 12.

All missing assignments will be due January 19, the last day of the 1st Semester.